To the Journal editor:

I sent you this letter to convince people to stop smoking. My first reason is that smoking is very bad for people. Secondly, if less people smoked there would be less litter. Finally, other people should not have to breathe in secondhand smoke.

As I said above, smoking is so bad for you that 443,000 people die a year. And it also causes cancer like, for instance, lung cancer and then even more people will die! And it will get you very sick and maybe even one of your family members.

Also as I mentioned above if less people smoke there will be less litter because then it starts to stink and when the snow is all gone in the summer there are smoke buds everywhere from people smoking. That does not make me happy at all!

Also I hate how when people are driving and smoking and then they are done, they just flick their smoke buds on the highway.

In addition I don’t think that people should have to breathe in secondhand smoking, like for example, what if I am talking to someone and they’re smoking and I am breathing in smoke.

I don’t appreciate that even though they don’t know that I am breathing in their smoke.

I hope that I convinced people all over the world to stop smoking and maybe one day people will give up smoking for good.

Thank you for your time.

Allison Hyde

Marquette